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SETTING FORTH THE ADVANTAGES OFFERED THE HOME SEEKER, IN THE "GARDEN SPOT OF THE V. 
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T. S. RA WORTH. 




W. 11. MUNDAY. Exalted Ruler. 





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J. J. EVANS. Esteemed Loyal Knight. 



F. E. BEANE. Esteemed Leading Knight. 



H. C. MORRISON, P. E. R. 




C. D. PERKINS. 





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INCE the organization, May, 1891, of the 
Augusta Lodge, No. 205, B. P. O. E., it has 
ever taken a prominent position for the ad- 
vertisement and development of its home 
cit}'. At ils inception the lodge embraced 
in its membership a number of prominent 
citizens who at once co-operated with every movement 
created for the good of dear old Augusta. At various 
periods books and pamphlets descriptive of the city and 
its territory have been issued under the auspices of the 



lodge. In all of this work they have received liberal 
and hearty support from the people at large, to which 
at this time grateful acknowledgment is made. 

In presenting the latest of the number of the books 
issued by the Elks the reader is requested to carefully 
examine its contents and become familiar with the beau- 
teous and many natural advantages of Augusta, Ga., 
justly called the Queen City of the South Atlantic 
States. 



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F. F.. BEANE, Esteemed Leading Knight. 

J. J. EVANS, Esteemed Loyal Knight. 

LOUIS BROOKS, Esteemed Lecturing Knight. 
B. W. BARROW, Secretary. 



J. J. MILLER, Treasurer. 
C. L. BAILEY, Esquire. 
H. C. PARKER, Ti7fr. 
W. H. STALLINGS, Chaplain. 
1. H. COHEN, Inner Guard. 



J. H. McKINZIE. 



W. P. HIXSON. 



A. LYMAN, Organist. 

TRUSTEES 
J. B. KEENER. 

AUDITING COMMITTEE 
J. J. EVANS. 



C. D. PERKINS. 



H. C. MORRISON. 



CLUB GOVERNING BOARD 



W. R. MUNDAY, President. 

W. S. MORRIS, Vice President. 
C. FLEMING. 

W. P. HIXSON. 

W. A. LYON. 

F. G. TURPIN, .Manager. 



T. S. RAWORTH. 
E. J. HANSBERGER. 
J. B. KEENER. 
H. C. MORRISON. 
H. C PARKER, Secretary and 1 rcasurer. 

DEWEY, The .llasotlr. 



LIST or MEMBERS OF AUGUSTA, GA.. LODGE, NO. 205, B. P. O. ELKS, JULY i, 1904. 



ALEXANDER, T. W. 
ADAMS, J. H. 
ALLEN, R. E. 
ARMSTRONG, J. P. 
ARMSTRONG, T. JOS. 
BREDENBERC;, J. H. 
BRENNER, J. A. 
BOHLER, C. S. 
BLIGH, T. C. 
BARROW, B. W. 
BENNETT, J. J. 
BARRETT, THOS., Jr. 
BAILEY, C. L. 
BARRETT H. GOULD 
BALLANTINE, R. L. 
BEANE, F. E. 
BENNETT, W. S. 



BEACHAM, W. W. 
BELL, GEO. H. 
BEESON, C. W. 
BINDEWALD, A. 
BLACKSHEAR, A. 
BOWE, W. F. 
BOARDMAN. R. H. 
BODEKER, F. J. 
BRILL, ABE 
BROOKS, LOUIS 
BURKE, J. A. 
BUSH, GEO. 
BUSH, F. C. 
BAILEY, T. J. 
CAVANAUG, W. F. 
CARTWRIGHT, A. H. 
CARTER, J. B. 



CHAFEE, O. J. 
CHAFEE, J. W. 
CLARK, J. W. 
COHEN, C. H. 
COHEN, L H. 
COONEY, W. J. 
COOPER, F. L. 
COURTNEY, E. W. 
CRANSTON, J. M. 
CRAWFORD, C. J. 
CROSLEY, J. W. 
CROWELL, D. F. 
DALY, T. J. 
DANIEL, E. L. 
DAN FORTH, W. P. 
DAVIS, L. S. 
DAVIS, J. L. 



DAWSON, W. R. 
DERRY, W. R. 
DeVAUGHAN, l. p. 
DIMMOCK, W. H. 
DORR, L. A. 
DORR, F. X. 
DORR, O. J. 
DOBSON, C. R. 
DOUGHTY, J. J. 
DOWNEY, M. J. 
DREGER, W. T. 
DUNBAR, A. S. 
DUNBAR, A. S. 
EVE, O. R. 
EVANS, J. J. 
EVANS, L. T. 
FLEMING, C. 



FORD, T. R. 
FRANKLIN, A. L. 
GANAHL, JOS. 
GARRETT, T. C. 
GEHRKEN, FRED 
GODIN, H. J. 
GOETCHIUS, J. E. 
tiREDIG, W. G. 
c;reen, C. D. 
GUESS, R. S. 
HAMMOND, H. C. 
HANKINSON, R. W. 
HANSBERGER, E. J. 
HEATH, G. E. 
HEGGIE, NEWT 
HEMPHILL, S. A. 
HENRY, L. J. 
HERMAN, W. A. 
HILL, A. E. 
IHXSON, W. P. 
HORKAN, P. D. 
HOWARD, GEO. H. 
HOWARD, T. G. 
HUNT, R. W. 
INMAN, J. W. 
JACKSON, J. U. 
JACKSON, W. M. 
JESTER, W. G. 
JONES, A. D. 
JONES, GEO. C. 
JOSSEY, J. T. 
JOWITT, GED 
K.-WANAUGH, J. E. 
KEENER, J. B. 
KELLY, P. A. 
KENNEDY, HENRY 



KENNEDY, J. J. 
LAGERWALL, T. 
LAWRENCE, B. 
LESTER, B. E. 
LEVY, J. WILLIE 
LLOYD, JUDD Q. 
LOWE, F. E. 
LYMAN, ARTHUR 
LYON, E. J. 
LYON, W. A. 
LYON, J. LLOYD 
MARKS, W. B. 
MARKS, C. F. 
MARSH, J. F. 
MARTIN, C. N. 
MAXWELL, H. C. 
MEEHAN, J. T. 
MILLER, J. J. 
MILLER, L. T. 
MILLER, J. M. 
MILLER, D. F. 
MILLS, R. L. 
MICHEL, H. F. 
MORRIS, W. S. 
MORRIS, J. H. 
MORRIS, W. J. 
MOTHNER, JOS. 
MORRISON, H. C. 
MULHERIN, W. J. 
MULLARKY, J. A. 
MULLARKY, W. J. 
MUNDAY, W. R. 
MURPHEY, E. E. 
MURPHEY, R. H. 
MEYER, F. CARL 
MYERS, S. H. 



MILLER, C. M. 
McAULIFFE, C. V. 
McAULIFFE, T. G. 
McARTHUR, W. A. 
McDANIEL, A. H. 
McGEE, W. E. 
McKENZIE, C. F. 
McKENZIE, J. H. 
NEEDHAM, C. C. 
NEILL, WM. 
NORRIS, M. J. 
NURNBERGER, W. H 
ODOM, H. O. 
O'DONOHOE, W. J. 
O'CONNOR, T. H. 
OETJEN, HENRY 
PALMERI, L.'j. 
PARKER, H. C. 
PATTERSON, R. S. 
PERKINS, C. D. 
PIKE, F. W. 
PIKE, F. W. 
PHINIZY, BOWDRE 
PHINIZY, FRED'K. 
PILCHER, A. C. 
R A WORTH, T. S. 
RAE, CLARENCE 
RAWORTH, H. F. 
RENNIE, T. H. 
REYNOLDS, F. G. 
RIPLEY, H. A. 
RHODES, P. A. 
ROBBE, C. A. 
ROBBINS, J. B. 
ROBERTSON, J. L. 
SAPP, J. A. 



SAUL, W. II. Jr. 
SCHWEIGERT, WM. 
SHAW, F. G. 
SHERON, P. F. 
SHERON, W. J. 
SHERON, T. J. 
SHEEHAN, EDW. 
SMITH, J. W. 
SMITH, H. C. 
SPETH, F. L. 
STALLINGS, W. H. 
SYLVESTER, S. M. 
STEMBRIDGE, H. II, 
TARVER, W. O. 
THOMAS, A. A. 
THOMAS, J. D. 
TIMMERMAN, G. W. 
TISCHER, A. F. 
TURPIN, F. G. 
THOMPSON, J. W. 
VASON, T. C. 
WALLACE, D. G. 
WALKER, WM. D'A. 
WARD, I. P. 
WARD, J. J. 
WATERS, W. A. 
WELTCH, GEO. P. 
WICKER, G. T. 
WILLINGHAM, R. K. 
WILSON, W. I. 
WINGFIELD, NTSBET 
WHITE, W. P. 
WRIGHT, BOYKIN 
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EORGIA, the greatest in area of any State 
east of the Mississippi River, embraces 
5.9475 square miles, and nearly equal in size 
to all New England. It was settled Febru- 
ary I, 1/77, l^y Gen. James Oglethorpe, and 
was the last of the original thirteen colo- 
nies. On its n(.)rthcrn border are North Carolina and 
Tennessee ; on the northeastern side. South Carolina : 
on the east, the Atlantic Ocean ; on the south, Florida, 
and on the west, Alabama. Containing in its greatest 
length, from north to south, 320 miles and nearly four 
and one-half degrees of latitude, it has a great variety 
of soil, climate and production. 

Two hundred and thirty-one varieties of hard woods 
are found here, while the yellow pine, world renowned 
for its lasting qualities, luxuriates as it does nowhere 
else on the face of the globe. Its agricultural and vege- 
table products comprise almost everything grown for 
the pleasure or subsistence of man. 

Its mineral products consist of iron, coal, limestone, 
gold, lead, copper, marble, granite, slate, bauxite, kaolin, 
ochre, sienna, fullers earth, and asbestos. 

Georgia ranks first in the Union in the production of 
marble, granite, peaches, melons, and lumber, and, ex- 
cepting Texas, in cotton; and she stands third in the 
|M-iHliiction of cotton goods in the South. 



Fifteen years ago Georgia marble was little known 
beyond the limits of the ■ State. Now it is the most 
famous in America, ^nd is recognized as the best for 
building purposes. The demand for it extends through- 
out the United States, and shipments have been made to 
Hawaii. From here was shipped the largest block of 
marble ever quarried in the United States to go into 
the capitol of Minnesota. In the construction of the 
new 'Stock Exchange, in New York City, Georgia marble 
is one of the main materials, as it is also in the new 
capitol of Rhode Island. 

In noting the wonderful natural advantages and re- 
sources of the State, a gentleman who has recently 
traversed and studied the State, has written as follows : 
"I have gathered a very fair idea of the many and varied 
products of the great State of Georgia, and it leads me 
to say that I believe that if you build a high fence 
around the State and yet the people therein could live 
independent of any other State. You have here the coal 
to burn ; the lumber, marble and granite to build with ■ 
the cotton and the mills to weave and spin it into cloth ; 
a soil that can produce all that we need to eat — wheat, 
corn, oats, rye, cattle and hogs, all kinds of vegetables, 
and the finest fruit I have ever seen. Could anyone wish 
a better location ?" 



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CHARLES G. GOODRICH, Cashier. RUKIS H. BROWN, As.sistant Cashier. 

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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 



COMMENCED BUSINESS DECEMBER 31, 1892 




CAPITAL. $200,000.00 

PROFITS, $229,216.77 DEPOSITS. $2,548,670.00 

DIVIDENDS PAID TO DATE. $128,000.00 



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tants, located at the head of steam naviga- 
tion on the Savannali River. This fact en- 
ables it to command very low rates of 
freight. Young blood has taken charge of 
the city's affairs, and her ablest and most 
representative citizens now aspire to municipal honors 
and to the guardianship of the city's interests. Con- 
sequently, her government is well administered, her 
credit is good, and her tax rate is very low. 

The greatest canal in the South is here, and is owned 
by the city, which furnishes power for manufacturing 
plants at the nominal cost of $5.50 per horse power, the 
cheapest in the world. The electric railway system of 
thirty miles is operated by power from this canal. 

The city is notably healthy, with a perfect sewerage 
system and water works. 

Cheap freight rates, solid financial institutions' and 
fortunate geographical situation have been great factors 



in Augusta's growth and development, as the report of 
clearings for four years evidence. Clearings in i8y8 
were $38,368,242.52. In 1902 they were $74,505,821.98, 
an increase of nearly 100 per cent, in four years. 

Write to the Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce 
for further information. 

The above are a few of the reasons why Augusta has 
risen from a frontier Indian trading post to a city of 
importance, and whose great achievements have made 
her name known throughout the world. 

Augusta is surrounded by a fertile country, whose 
possibilities have never been measured. The agricul- 
tural resources have never been developed. The agri- 
cultural resources are varied, and all seasons of the 
year are growing seasons for some sort of products. 

Within two miles of the city's limits therre are plant- 
ers who have gathered 100 bushels of corn from an 
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THE BEAUTIFUL CHERRY RED COLOR IS HIGHLY ORNA- 
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Office and Warehouse, North Augusta, Depot. 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN 

Lime, Cement, Plaster, Hair, 
Latlis, Sliingles. 

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cities from Au,L;usta is given as follows: 

Aiken, S. C i8 

Atlanta, Ga 171 

naltimore. Md 613 

Boston, Mass 1027 

Charleston, S. C 138 

Chicago, 111 956 

Denver, Col.. 1712 

Jacksonville, Fla ■ 303 

Kansas City, Mo 1073 

Louisville, Ky 647 

Macon, Ga 125 

Nashville, Tenn 462 

New Orleans, La 667 



New York, N. Y 800 

Norfolk, Va 517 

Omaha, Neb 1 100 

Philadel])hia. Pa 701) 

Portland, Ore 3013 

L'art Royal. S. C 112 

Richmond, Va 473 

Salt Lake City. Utah 2261 

Savannah, (ia 132 

St. Augustine, Fla 341 

St. Louis, Mo 778 

St. Paul, Minn 1366 

Tampa, Fla 543 

Thomasville, Ga 291 

\A'ashington, D. C 571 

Wilmington, N. C .' . 277 



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HE ijlicnoiiR'iial strides made by the South 
during the past decade in industrial lines 
has attracted attention from every section 
of the globe. The wonderful development 
is easy to explain when one compares the 
South 's great natural advantages to those 
of other sections. 

The following practical thoughts are from ihe pen 
of one who has given much study to the two great man- 
ufacturing sections of our country, and his opinion 
should be carefully read : 

"With no competitors, New England was under no 
disadvantages. With the South as a competitor her 
natural disadvantages count against her with full force. 
The natural advantages are with the South ; most of 
the artificial advantages are with New England. Which 
set of forces is most powerful ? 

"It is an economic truism that natural advantages per- 
sist and are of progressive force, while artificial advan- 
tages diminish and finally disappear. The South pro- 
duces cotton, coal, lumber, iron, and it is close to the 
consumer. New England produces neither and is 
distant from the consumer. 

"As population becomes denser, this fundamental 
advantage of the South, which can never be lessened, 
will exert continually increasing force. Cheap raw 
materials, cheap labor and near-by markets are economic 



magnets far more powerful than any opposing forces, 
and they are certain sooner or later to attract to their 
support the forces arrayed against them at the outset. 
"These opposing forces, spoken of above as artificial 
advantages, are plentiful capital, highly developed skill, 
varied developments, capable management. All these 
New England has in abundance; but she cannot pre- 
vent their free migration. They are all the creatures of 
opportunity, and if the South offers the opportunity, 
skill and capital will go South and quickly create the 
varied development." 

The Southern States, with the immense purchasing 
power of a cotton crop, worth annually $330,000,000 — 
to say nothing of their other products — constitute a 
market which is appreciated by all the manufacturing 
world, and which has contributed more than any other 
section to sustain the American manufacturing interest. 
Georgia, the Empire State of the South, leads in this 
respect as in all others, and Augusta's immediate terri- 
tory has a large purchasing capacity. Many classes of 
our manufactories, therefore, find a sufficient home mar- 
ket for their product, and all kinds of manufactories 
requiring only a home market would have most flatter- 
ing prospects here. Indeed, the difference in transpor- 
tation from the Northern factories and those of the 
South, to the Southern consumer, is sufficient to enable 
the Southern manufacturer to control the Southern pat- 
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CHARTERED UNDER THE LAWS OF NEW JERSEY 



CAPITALIZATION 



Bonds 5 Per Cent., 50 years, 

Preferred Stock, 

Common, 



$3,000,000 

800.000 

1,500,000 



Orrir-PBC; •' JAMES U. JACKSON, President 

vjrri^^c.na.|^ j. Mcknight. Sec. itreas 

EXECUTIVE committee: — C. G. GOODRICH. THOS. BARRETT. Jb , 



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Electric and Improvement Company. The Augusta Railway and Electric Company a Jr 



owns about 33 miles of Trolley Line in Augusta, Ga., and suburbs, and also the 

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HIS Company owns the famous Winter Resort Hotel, Hampton Terrace, under lease to the celebrated 
hotel manager, Mr. C. A. Linsley. The Hotel for the Season of 1904 and 1905, will open Dec. 1, 1904. 
Tourists duriiiii the coming Winter should not fail to visit this hotel. 

The Company owns the Augusta and Aiken Railroad. The road runs from Augusta to Aiken, a distance 
of twenty-three miles. Visitors to Augusta should avail themselves of the opportunity to take a ride 
over this road to see the manufacturing towns of Clearwater, Bath, Langley, Warren\ille and (Jraniteville, through 
w hich the road runs, and to Aiken, the noted winter resort. 

1 he Company also owns 4,000 acres of land, just opposite Augusta, Georgia, 1,000 acres of which have been 
platted into lots, and are sold on convenient terms. 

The town of North Augusta has sprung up like magic, and now is a thri\ing town of 1,300 uihabitants, with 
complete Water Works, Sewerage System and Electric Lights. 

4,000 acres of the Company's land is offered for sale in five and ten acre plats, for small farms. 
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I'ROGRESSIVE community has no factor 
niore important to its financial or business 
successand prosperity than its banking in- 
stitutions. Their influence is felt in every 
branch, — commerce and industry. And, 
to a large extent, just so far as those insti- 
tutions are safe and enterprising and perform their duty 
to the community, to that extent is that community en- 
terprieing and prosperous. To their care, protection and 
distribution is confined the capital which "sustains its 
connnerce, supports its manufactories, and rewards the 
labor of its toiling multitude." 

Augusta has reason to point with pride to its banking 
institutions. Through national and world-wide dis- 
orders and panics these institutions have, by their care- 
ful and conservative course, progressed steadily and 
established themselves on an enviable and substantial 
basis. 

Our city is the l)anking centre of a large section ot 
countr\-. rich in natural resources, abounding in fertile 



lands, and conducting large and varied interests. The 
influence of her institutions is felt throughout Georgia, 
South Carolina and in other States. They aid in mar- 
keting the great cotton crop and lumber of the South, 
thereby transferring each year from the Northern and 
European money centres millions of dollars to our sec- 
tion, to be distributed throughout our Southern cities 
and plantations. We have eight banks, several build- 
ing associations and one trust company. 
Banking Capital. 



Capital 
Stock 



Surplus 



Georgia Railroad Bank $ 200,000 $199,085.38 



National Bank of Augusta 

National Exchange Bank 

Planters Loan and Sav. Bank. 

Augusta Savings Bank 

Irish-American Bank 

Union Savings Bank 

The Equitable Trust Co 

Merchants Bank 



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400,000 
50,000 
30,000 
15,000 
30,000 
285,000 
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HAT AUGUSTA and its immediate terri- 
tory is the ideal place to spend the winter 
is evidenced by the rapidity in which the 
tourist business has developed here in the 
past few years. The following facts con- 
cerning the weatlier of this section have 
been carefully compiled and can be accepted as au- 
thentic : 

When the National Weather Bureau was first organ- 
ized, with thirty-five stations, Augusta was included 
in the list. Mr. D. Fisher, the present observer for this 
station, furnishes the following official report of the 
weather here, covering twenty-two years in which the 
station has existed : 

Augusta's Location. 

Latitude, North 33 degrees. 28 minutes,; longitude. 
West 81 degrees, 54 minutes. 

Temperature. 

Mean annual or normal temi)erature, as compiled from 
the record of observation taken during a period of 
twenty-two years, 64; average Spring (March, April, 
May) temperature, 63.7 ; average Summer (June, July, 
August) temperature, 79.6; average Autumn (Septem- 
ber, October, November) temperature, 64.1 ; average 
Winter (December, January, February) temperature, 
48.6; highest temperature ever recorded (August. 1878), 
105; lowest temperature ever recorded (January, 1886), 
6; range in temperature for twenty-two years, 99. 

Precipitation. 

Average annual (rain, sleet, hail and melted snow), 
48.19 ; average monthly Spring precipitation, 4.14 : 
average monthly Summer precipitation, 4.71 : average 
monthly Autumn precipitation, 3.23 : average number of 
days annually with precipitation, 1.18. 

Weather. 

Average annual clear days, 129; average annual parll\ 
cloudy days, 139; average annual cloudy days, 97. 

Frosts. 

Average date on which last killing frost occurred, 
March 17. 



Humidity. 

Mean annual relative humidity, 75 per cent. 

This report shows that we have one of the most 
equable temperatures of any section of the country, 
vvith just enough rainfall well distributed throughout 
the year, while our Summers are three or four weeks 
longer than in the Northern States. The temperature 
rarely exceds 96 in the warmest days, and when it 
does, it occurs only a day or two at the time, and the 
evenings and nights are generally cool enough for com- 
fort and refreshing sleep. As a result, sunstrokes are 
almost wholly unknown, and there is no necessity for 
cessation of work from the heat. We generally have a 
half dozen freezes in the winter (just enough to kill 
vegetation and the germs of disease), and sometimes 
light snow, but we have none of those long, dreary, 
rainy spells that characterize the Northern climate. On 
the contrary, our Winterr days are mostly cool, crisp 
and bright, and the late Fall and early Spring months 
are characterized by beautiful Indian Summer weather 
that cannot be excelled by any climate of the world. 
A range of sand hills that encircle the city on the west 
and southwest (accessible by electric railway) have 
long been famous for their sanitary advantages. In 
slavery days the ricli cotton planters had their Summer 
residences there, and owing to the dry atmosphere the 
National Government established an arsenal there as 
early as 1834, which it still maintains. Since the war 
these hills have been built up into a beautiful suburban 
village, which is inhabited mostly by our wealthier 
classes, and which has become one of the most popular 
and extensive winter resorts for Northern people in the 
South, so much so that two magnificent winter hotels 
have ben erected. The Hotel Bon Air on the Sand 
Hills, and the Hampton Terrace on North Augusta 
Heights ; a more ideal spot could not have been selected 
than the location of these hotels. 

Augusta's Great River Advantages. 

The Savannah River, upon which Augusta is located, 
ranks high among the rivers of the United States and 
of the world. Its valley is vast and rich and empties 
its rich product into the lap of Augusta. The value of 
its agricultural products reaches into the millions. Its 
timber and minerals are yet hardly touched. It is one 
of the most charming valleys in the world. The climate 



is equable. The products varied. The people are as 
happy who live in this valley as any people to be found 
on all the earth. Protected by the Alleghenies from 
too severe winter winds, neither too far south nor too 
far north, the Winters are mild and the Summers more 
agreeable than many regions in higher latitudes. 

The Savannah River is famous for its water powers. 
There is no range of mountains so beautifully set in 
relation to the sea as the Alleghenies, or Blue Ridge to 
the Atlantic Ocean. The distance from the foot of 
these mountains to the sea is less than three hundred 
miles through Georgia and South Carolina. Between 
the foot of the mountains and the sea rolls a beautiful 
land interspersed with a rare quantity of rapidly run- 
ning streams, furnishing more water power for manu- 
facturing purposes, it is said by all high authorities, 
than any other similar area perhaps in America. The 
reason of this is obvious 

The water power of the Savannah River all lies above 
and at Augusta. Augusta is 121 miles Trom the sea, 
and is upon the edge of the level or lower country, and 
the upper country stretching to the Blue Ridge. These 
large water powers should be utilized by capitalists, 
and no doubt will be. for better or cheaper power can 
not be found elsewhere. 

A few vears ago a survey of the water of this river 



and its immediate tributaries, with that of other rivers, 
was made by Mr. Geo. F. Swain, S. B., Instructor in 
Civil Engineering in the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, for the United States Government, and his 
report is interesting. Water power is determined by 
fall and volume. The amount of fall is accurately de- 
termined by a carefully made line of levels. The time 
allotted to Mr. Swain enabled him to visit only a few 
of the most important water powers, and even in these 
instances the only instrument of measurement he could 
r.se was a small Loche pocket level, with which, he says, 
in some cases he was enabled to arrive at "quite close 
approximation of the fall, while in others the results 
obtained are liable to large errors." 

The water powers of the .Savannah River, as given 
by Mr. Swain, are as follows : 



Min. 

Blue Jacket Shoals 1650 

Trotters Shoals 57oo 

Cherokee Shoals 560 

Greggs Shoals 825 

Middleton's Shoals 1060 

McDaniel Shoals 1600 

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8100 


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800 


2100 


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1500 


4000 


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he following letter is one of many that have 
been received by tlie Augusta Chamber of 
L'onimerce evidencing that to the stranger 
the latch-string at Augusta ever hangs on 
the outside, and that a hearty welcome 
awaits those who go there from elsew'hcre 



to live 



AUGUSTA, GA., March i, 1904. 
The Chamber of Commerce, Augusta, Ga. 

Gentlemen : — Replying to your favor asking my 
opinion as to the advantages offered by this section to 
Northern home seekers. I am pleased to say that they 
are many and substantial. It is my experience that too 
much cannot be said in behalf of the wonderful re- 
sources and natural advantages with which this South- 
land has been blessed. 

I came here seven years ago and have been very 
successful both in farming and dairying. My farm and 
dairy is located two miles west of the city, where I 
ha\e \2^ high-class Jerseys, and I can grow almost 



everything needed for man and beast. My corn crop 
for the past year averaged 50 bushels to the acre, and 
I have made as high as 60 bushels of oats to the acre. 

The climate is fine, as m3'self and family have never 
had better health than what we have enjoyed since 
coming here. It also gives me pleasure to speak of the 
kind and cordial treatment we have received from our 
neighbors and the public generally. We have often 
heard of the warm-hearted hospitality of the Southern 
people, but our experience is that the half has never 
been told. 

Before coming here I lived in Kentucky and Penn- 
sylvania, and my experience is that one can make a 
better living here with half the money invested and half 
the labor than in either of the above States. 

I am glad to note that the Chamber of Commerce is 
making an effort to bring Northern and Western people 
here, and I will be glad to assist them in every possible 
way, for I know that there are lots of folks who would 
come here if they knew that one could make here three 
crops per year, and you could work out-doors all the 
year. Yours \'ery Truly, 

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PIANOS, ORGANS, FURNITURE 

SEWING MACHINES, BICYCLES, ninv PARRJAPP^ 

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Etc UMDI UHnniHULO) 
The Store that has the Goods, and can save you money. 
706, 708. 710 BROADWAY. 
WAREHOUSES: 705, 707, 709 ELLIS STREET, 

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. 






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lilk order is the Club. This is conducted 
as an adjunct of the organization. Mem- 
bership in tlie lodge confers the privilege 
of membership in the club. None are eligi- 
ble to membership in the club who are not 
lodge members. 

The Elks occup_\' one of the most prominent and com- 
modious buildings situated on Broad street in the heart 
of the business portion of the city. On the second 
floor of the building the entire suite of rooms is de- 
voted to club purposes, and consists of a parlor, sitting 
room, reading rom, cafe, billiard and pool room, dining 



room and lavatory, bath room and barber shop. The 
culinary department is on the lower floor. The entire 
third floor is devoted to the lodge room and auxiliary 
working rooms. The appointments and furnishings 
throughout are elegant and substantial and well adapted 
to the purposes for which it is used. The reading 
room is supplied with the daily paperrs, together with 
the current periodicals of the day. Altogether, the Elks 
and their club are a firmly established institution in the 
city of Augusta that have by good management and well- 
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Flour, Meal, Grits, Bran, ShipstufFs. Chicken Feed a 

Specialty. Hotel Bon Air and Hampton Terrace 

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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. 

FOUNDRY, MACHINE AND BOILER WORKS 
AND SUPPLY STORE. 



Engines, Boilers, Bridges, Roofs, Tanks, Tower and Build- 
ing Construction ; Cotton, Saw, Grist, Oil. Fertilizer, Cane and 
Shingle Mill Machinery and Repairs ; Building, Bridge, Factory, 
Furnace and Railroad Castings; Railroad and Mill Supplies; Belt- 
ing, Packing, Injectors, Saws, Files, Oilers, etc.; Shafting; 
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AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. 

CAPITAL STOCK, $400,000.00 

SURPLUS FUND, $100,000.00 | 



WE RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT THE ACCOUNTS 

OF BANKS, CORPORATIONS, FIRMS 

AND INDIVIDUALS. 



Wni. B. Young 
W. H. Harison, Jr. 
T. O. Brown 
H. H. .Alexander 



DIRECTORS 

Joseph H Day 
F. L. Fuller 
S. Lesser 
Warren Walker 



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David Slusky 
Thomas R. Maxwell 



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splendid school system. The Board of Ed- 
ucation of Richmond County was organized 
in 1872 by act of the General Assembly. It 
consists of thirty-seven members, being one 
of the largest boards of education in the 
L'nited .States. It has jurisdiction over the schools of 
the entire county, as well as those of the city. There 
are no city schools in the eyes of the law as distinct 
from country schools. One board of education has 
charge of the whole area, city and country alike. The 
same length of term, the same qualifications of teachers, 
and the same monthly pay are prescribed for the rural 
districts and those of the city. The result of this has 
been not only to build up a fine system of city schools, 
second to none in the country, but to surround the city 
with a well-educated rural population who have as good 
school advantages as if they lived in the city. This 
makes Richmond County, as well as Augusta, an excep- 



tionally good place for people to live in on account of 
its unique and unrivaled educational advantages. 

The revenue of the Board of Education consists of 
about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, of 
which fifty-five thousand dollars are raised by local tax- 
ation, and the remainder comes from State and Endow- 
ment Fund. With this amount the Board of Education 
maintains a famous high school and twelve other large 
schools in the city, and fifty smaller schools in the 
rural districts. Over eight thousand children enrolled 
last year in the puWic schools, taught by one hundred 
and sixty-eight teachers. The schools run nine months 
in the year, but the teachers are paid liberally for 
twelve months. There are kindergarten schools for the 
reception of young pupils, and there are night schools 
for those who are compelled to labor during the day. 
Some of the finest school houses in the State, with com- 
plete and perfect equipment, with skilled teachers in 
charge, constitute the pride and glory of our city. 




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ALBERT S. HATCH, Cashier 











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Maurice Walton 


Wm. J. HollinKSworth 


Wm. H. Barrett 


Charles T. Pimd 


James V.. Tarver 


William Martin 


1,. L,. Arrington 


Henry H. Cumniing 


Bryan I^awrence 


John J. Bvans 


Thomas R. Maxwell 


George S. Murphey 









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Scrolled, Turned and Moulded Work in Georgia Yellow 
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Catalog and other printed matter mailed at request. 



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HE City owns its waterworks, valued at 
$1,000,000, and the Aiio-nsta Canal, valued at 
$2,000,000 : also real estate worth $300,000. 
The city receives $12,000 per annum from 
cor])orations for use of certain streets, 
riu- assessments on real estate were re- 
duced 10 per cent, in 1897, 5 per cent in 1899, and 5 per 
cent, in ujoo. 

The assessments on cotton mill plants were reduced 
ahout 25 iier cent, in the year 1899, and 5 1-2 per cent, in 
1903. 



Net income from canal and water works for year 1903 
(exclusive of repairs to canal dam), $99,094.40. 

Total interest on bonded debt for year 1903, $81,666.00. 

It is the policy of the City Assessor of real estate to 
assess property at 80 per cent, of its real value. 

From the above it will be seen that the city receives 
from its property nearly $18,000 annually more than its 
interest on its bonded debt. W'hat other city can make 
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SUMMER DAYS 
IN MICHIGAN 

The best place in the world to spend 

YOUR VACATION DAYS 

Pure Air, Boating, Fishing, 
Golf, Everything to Amuse, 
Good Hotels, Low Rates. 

Mackinac, GccrEian Bay, The 
Soo, Huionia Beach, Pt Aux 
Barques, Hundreds of Island and 
Coast Resorts. The air of Mich- 
igan is a known Specific for Hay 
Fever, Asthma and Kindred dis- 
orders. Let us talk the matter 
over with you, our agent will 
gladly call. Write for Booklet 
and Information. 




CH&D 



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CH&D to St. Louis 

WORLD'S FAIR TRAINS 

Through Trains Daily to St. Louis 

ROUND TRIP RATES 

Coach Excursions 
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HE North Augusta Electric and Improve- 
ment Co", is a corporation owning various 
interests in South Carolina, which consist 
of the Augusta & Aiken Electric Railway, 
Hampton Terrace Hotel, the steam railroad 
connecting North Augusta with the South- 
ern Railway and leased for twenty years to the South- 
ern Railway, the North Augusta Water Works and 
Sewerage System, the North Augusta Electric Light 
Plant and about 5000 acres of land, which is admirably 
situated for building lots, manufacturing sites, dairy 
and truck farms, etc. Handsomer or more promising 
]M-operty than those enumerated this country does not 
afFord. One of the very safest securities now on the 
market is the five per cent. First Mortgage Gold Bonds 
which cover these properties. In fact, the actual net 
earnings from them are already more than double the 
interest, with the hotel and trolley line in operation only 
one season. 

The development of the North Augusta interests was 
the result, not of chance or accident, but of keen business 
foresight and calculation. Mr. James U. Jackson was 
the originator of the entire group of North Augusta 
enterprises, and by a brilliant series of operations he 
financed the whole and placed them on a sound business 
basis. He first organized the North Augusta Land Co., 
which ])urchased an immense tract of land lying within 
a mile of the business centre of .\ugusta, and rendered 
it readily accessible by building a magnificent steel 
l)ri(lge at a cost of $85,000. which he presented to the 
city as a free gift. The rapid development of North 
Augusta then followed. The streets and parks were laid 
out by Mr. Walter M. Jackson, the general manager, 
whose assistance in the details of the management from 
the inception of the great enterprise has been invaluable. 
Elegant, well-ke])t driveways here abcnmd, which are 
lined with neat cottages and elegant residences. Promi- 
inent among them is the elegant and ornate residence 
of President James U. Jackson, with its broad porticoes 
extending around three sides. Another stately mansion 
with broad porticoes and fluted columns is that of Gen- 
eral Manager Walter M. Jackson. The views of the 
surrounding country from their homes are very fine, 
and they stand out as conspicuous objects and can be 
seen for miles away. The homes of Colonel Jack 
Cranston, Dr. Weltch and otherrs are sumptuous and 



ornamental, and add greatly to the beauty of the sur- 
roundings. 

On the crest of the hill, at an elevation of 350 feet 
above the level of the city, is the magnificent hotel, 
Hampton Terrace, named for South Carolina's fovorite 
son, the famous Wade Hampton, the dashing Confed- 
erate cavalry leader, the loved and honored statesman, 
who illustrated his native State in the United States 
Senate, and also as Governor, a true gentleman of noble 
ancestry. Hampton Terrace, which perpetuates his 
memory, is worthy in every way of the great name and 
fame of the grand old Southern gentleman. 

Hampton Terrace, another of the great enterprises 
which James U. Jackson has brought to a most suc- 
cessful and happy conclusion, is laid out on the most 
elaborate and artistic scale. It is probably the most 
complete tourist hotel in the South. 




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In building the Augusta & Aiken Electric Railway 
and putting on the extensive improvements at North 
Augusta, President James U. Jackson has placed him- 
self at the head of Southern developers. He has planted 
investments here aggregating $1,000,000 in foreign cap- 
ital, and so successful have been his ventures that others 
are sure to follow. It is probable that the road will be 



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extended to Columbia, forty-five miles distant, with a 
branch to Edgefield. 

The great developments resulting from the building 
of electric roads was gone into at some length by a 
magazine writer not long since. The city of Indian- 
apolis has become the focus of a vast system of these 
roads. The writer in question spoke of having made the 
trip from New York to Detroit, almost the entire dis- 
tance, by electric lines, and prognosticated that ere long 
the gaps would be closed, so that the journey from New 
York to Chicago might be made. Throughout New 
England the electric lines have become an established 
institution, and they radiate in all directions. 

President Jackson's activity and enterprising spirit 
will not rest with the great opportunities presented by 
the South. He has shown himself to be a skillful 
financier as well as a successful manipulator of great 
proportions. He took the Augusta Southern when it 
was a narrow gauge and reconstructed the road. He 
also was instrumental in placing the bonds of the Mari- 
etta & North Georgia, which is destined to become the 
great highway of travel between Atlanta and the North- 
west. 



He was elected vice president of this road in 1885, 
when it was a little narrow gauge road, extending from 
Marietta up a short distance beyond Blue Ridge, Ga. 
He planned the extension of it to Knoxville, and con- 
verted it from a narrow to a standard gauge. The road 
was doing a good business, and its bonds were in de- 
mand at between 95 and 100, when he resigned his posi- 
tion as vice-president. 

As vice-president of this road, Mr. Jackson developed, 
among other things, the great marble quarries which 
are today furnishing building marble all over America, 
and among some of the notable structures built of this 
stone can be mentioned the Minnesota State Capitol, 
Rhode Island State Capitol, Corcoran Library and New 
York Stock Exchange. 

The Augusta & Aiken line, although it has been in 
operation but a short time, has had to double its equip- 
ment of rolling stock. It is 23 miles long and connects 
the three famous winter resorts. North Augusta and 
Aiken in South Carolina and Summerville in Georgia. 
It also connects the great manufacturing and commer- 
cial city of Augusta with the thriving manufacturing 
towns in South Carolina — Clear Water, Bath, Langley, 
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H. H. CABANISS, Manager. 



UGUSTA boasts the oldest newspaper in 
the South— THE AUGUSTA CHRONI- 
CLE, established in 1785. This venerable 
newspaper, which has been published con- 
tinuously for 119 years, last year passed into 
new hands and has taken on new life. May, 
1903, it was purchased by Mr. H. H. Cabaniss, so long 
identified with the successful management of the Atlan- 
ta Journal, and Mr. Thos. W. Loyless, associate editor of 
the Atlanta Constitution. 



Under its new management, the Chronicle has been 
greatly improved, its subscription list has been largely 
increased, and now ranks among the best Southern 
dailies. 

As before stated, the Chronicle was established in 1785, 
and, with the exception of breaks during that year and 
a few years later, has among its property complete files 
of the paper — a diary of the world's happenings for near- 
ly one and a quarter centuries. 

The Chronicle in the past was the medium through 



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which the statesmen of the South reached their con- 
stituencies, and during the lives of Benj. H. Hill, Alex- 
ander H. Stevens, Robert Toombs, and contemporary 
public men, the Chronicle was the most widely read of 
any paper in the South. They thought of no other 
journal when attempting to reach the mass of people in 
Georgia. It was for a hundred years the newspaper in 
the South. Today it carries on its lists looo or more 
names — heads of families — whose predecessors have 
been readers of the Chronicle for four generations. 

Time was when, in wills, men bequeathed to eldest 
sons their subscriptions to the paper. At this time his- 
torans and sketch writers seek the file rooms of the 
Chronicle for needed information. 

The Chronicle was a weekly until 1837, when it be- 
came a daily. It was first edited and published by John 
E. Smith, State printer for a number of years. The pa- 
per at that time was a weekly of small dimensions. The 
next editor was a Mr. Driscoll, native of Ireland, and a 
journalist of considerable ability. In 1821 Mr. Joseph 
Vallence Bevan asumed charge of the editorship. Un- 
der his management the paper was enlarged and much 
improved and appeared as a semi-weekly. Toward the 
latter part of 1822, and after the death of Mr. Bevan, 
John K. Charlton, Andrew Ruddell, and John B. Len- 
nard became proprietors, and Mr. T. S. Hannon made 
the paper a ' tri-weekly, but in 1824, at which time Wil- 
liam J. Hobby took charge, it was reduced to a semi- 
weekly. 

In 1825 A. H. Pemberton became proprietor and so 
remained for a number of years. Under his manage- 
ment the paper was nearly of its present size, but a 
single sheet. For ten years Mr. Pemberton managed 
the paper alone; in 1835 he associated his brother in 
business with him as A. H. and W. F. Pemberton. -On 
December 31, 1836, the Pembertons sold out to William 
E. Jones, proprietor of The States Right Sentinel, who 
merged the two papers, and on January 3, 1837, issued 
the first number of The Daily Chronicle and Sentinel. 

In venturing on such an untried experiment in Augus- 
ta as a daily paper Mr. Jones remarked that he did so 
"with some diffidence, but no apprehension." The time, 
he thought, was opportune and the future would sustain 
his venture. 

In 1839 Mr. Jones formed the firm of William E. 
Jones & Co., which was succeeded one year later by two 



brothers, James W. and William S. Jones, the former 
being the editor for a number of years. In 1849 William 
S. Jones bought out the interest of James W. Jones in 
the paper, the latter, however, continuing to act as edi- 
tor. About this time telegraphic dispatches appeared in 
the paper. 

In 1846 Colonel James M. Smythe edited the paper, 
and with great ability, being one of the very best inform- 
ed politicians in Georgia. 

During the war Dr. W. S. Jones terminated his con- 
nection with the Chronicle, disposing of it to the late 
N. S. Morse, a Northern man, who at that time was a 
pronounced and ardent Southern sympathizer. 

Mr. Morse on March 24, 1866, sold the paper to Mr. 
Henry P. Moore and General A. R. Wright, and in No- 
vember of the same year the Hon. Patrick Walsh became 
connected with the Chronicle. 

Mr. Walsh was a prominent citizen of Augusta, who 
by his business tact and experience, did much to sustain 
the paper during the troubled years just after the war. 
He was one of the kindest and mo,st generous of men, 
and advanced the money with which to purchase the 
Chronicle of Mr. Morse. 

General Ambrose R. Wright was one of the celebrated 
men of Georgia. During the war he rose to the rank ot 
major general, being particularly distinguished for his 
impetuous gallantry. After the war he edited the 
Chronicle up to the time of his death. 

Up to May i, 1873, the Chronicle was owned by Mr. 
Henry Moore, with the Hon. Patrick Walsh and the 
late General A. R. Wright as co-partners. On the date 
last mentioned Mr. Moore severed his connection with 
the paper and Messrs. Patrick Walsh and Henry G. 
Wright assumed control of the Chronicle, the latter 
being the son of General A. R. Wright, and a man of 
great talent, who ranked with the foremost of the edi- 
torial profession. 

On March 17, 1877, the Constitutionalist and the 
Chronicle and Sentinel became consolidated under the 
management of Messrs. Walsh and Wright, as the 
Chronicle and Constitutionalist, under which name it 
remained until 1885, when it became known under its 
present name. 

Under the present management its influence in affairs 
of State and upon all public questions is as marked as 
that of any paper in Georgia. 



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HE City is well supplied with church privi- 
leges, numbering twenty-three, and embrac- 
ing every denomination, the following of 
which is a list: 



Berean Baptist Church. 

Curtis Baptist Church. 

Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal. 

First Baptist Church. 

Church of the Atonement, Episcopal. 

Sacred Heart Catholic Church. 

St. Patrick's Catholic Church. 

First Christian Church. 



Christ's Mission Church, Episcopal. 

St. Paul's Episcopal Church. 

Congregation of the Children of Israel. 

Holy Trinity English Lutheran Church. 

St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. 

Asbury Methodist Church. 

Broad Street Methodist Episcopal Church. 

St. James Methodist Episcopal Church. 

St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Woodlawn Mission, M. E. 

First Presbyterian Church. 

Second Presbyterian Church. 

Reid Memorial Church, Presbyterian. 

St. Andrew's Mission, Episcopal. 



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D. F. JACK, Vice-Presideut. 



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CLARENCE E. CLARK, Treasurer. 



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GEORGIA. 



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